2006 New York Code - Water Quality Management Agency.

 
    §  220-a. Water quality management agency. The board of supervisors or
  county legislature, shall have the power to designate  a  water  quality
  management  agency  for the purposes of water quality management program
  oversight.  Such  agency  may,  in  the  discretion  of  the  board   of
  supervisors  or  county  legislature,  be  an  existing county official,
  county agency, a group of agencies or officials or other county  entity,
  or may be a newly created agency. Such a water quality management agency
  shall  be  responsible  for  providing  oversight  of  all water quality
  programs  and  related  activities  in  the  county.  This  includes   a
  continuing  assessment  of  the  impact of point and nonpoint sources of
  pollution on the waters of the county, and the  appropriateness  of  the
  monitoring  and  administrative  activities  related  thereto. The water
  quality management agency shall have the responsibility  to  review  and
  coordinate  all  activities of county officers, agencies, departments or
  other entities of county government which have a substantial  impact  on
  or  interest  in  water  quality management. The agency shall prepare an
  annual report, which shall be submitted to  the  county  executive,  the
  board   of  supervisors  or  county  legislature,  the  New  York  state
  department of environmental conservation, and  where  appropriate  to  a
  regional planning agency. This report shall identify needs of the county
  and document progress in improving water quality management performance.
  This report shall include but not be limited to the following:
    1. recommended changes in surface and groundwater classification.
    2. status and results of water quality monitoring activities.
    3. status of facilities construction.
    4. onsite sewage facilities programs.
    5. hazardous and toxic materials disposal.
    6. status of point sources control and operation.
    7. nonpoint source management.
    8. economic and demographic changes.
    9. an assessment of water quality condition in the county.
    10. quantification of needs to improve water quality management.
    11. findings and recommendations for future programming.